Jules Verne Quotes

Lightning is something which, again, we would rather avoid.

I go where the sound of thunder is.

I've been in electric storms in the mountains. Scary things.

The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder.

Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

If you see the lion’s fangs showing, do not think the lion is smiling.

I loved watching the base of those thunderstorms, the billowing tops of the cumulonimbus, the lightning that effortlessly lit up the lake and the sky. It was gorgeous, so energetic. I was in love.

Science cannot avert a single thunderbolt.

It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows listening for the thunder which they know will shortly break; when they recall dismal tales of hurricanes and earthquakes; and of lonely travellers on open plains, and lonely ships at sea, struck by lightning.

Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.

The rattling thunderbolt hath but his clap, the lightning but his flash, and as they both come in a moment, so do they both end in a minute.

Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked.

A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lightning's going to strike.

Struck by lightning! Struck by lightning!

Now and then there comes a crash of thunder in a storm, and we look up with amazement when he sets the heavens on a blaze with his lightning.

To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder, In the most terrible and nimble stroke Of quick, cross lightning.

I escaped the Thunder, and fell into the Lightning.

Beware the autumn people

If thou art terrible to manyh, then beware of many.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

When the lightning strikes but one, not one only does it terrify.

Flame is very near to smoke.

Given the cause nature produces the effect in the briefest manner that it can employ.

Fear loves the idea of danger.